Extremely interesting read. After my old Dell 2209WA became defective, I tried to find a new monitor I could use. To my surprise, I have found out that the modern LED monitors are extremely unpleasant to look at, and I started to look for the source of the problem. It seems that all the flickers PWM and temporal dithering introduce to a computer screen is very harmful for the neural system - at least in case of sensitive people, and long-term.

Do you have a similar experience?

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I don't know about the monitors themselves displaying messages to the subconscious mind, (I know the old CRTs flicker rate drove me insane. The LCD flat screens saved me) I did read about some questions concerning the differences between broadcast rates in Analog and digital.

Apparently, (and I don't have the number) there only needs to be a certain number of frames per second projected for our brains to detect a smooth flow of data - such as a movie. Analog transmission of data was more than adequate to accomplish this. The move to digital enabled more images per second to be relayed then ever before. The question was asked if our brains only require X amount of images to be relayed, then what is being put in between the "frames" that is being fed directly into our subconscious. I may have used the wrong lingo as I'm not an expert, just relaying broken pieces of something I read about a couple years a that stuck with me.

The fact that our govt thought that everyone needed to be able to enjoy the full digital experience so much that they underwrote the whole changeover apparently, surly got my spidie senses tingling.